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Volume of topographical surveys.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume (somewhat out of order) are as follows:(i) a report of a survey of Loch Broom made in July 1793 (folio 1);(ii) a report, addressed to John Rennie, of the survey of Loch Bay made in May 1793 by John Baine (folio 23) which was given in to the Highland Society; (iii) John Mackenzie`s letter, 1798, forwarding the reports (folio 53);(iv) a copy of a report by Thomas Telford to Nicholas Vansittart, then secretary of the...
Dates:
1793-1801.
Volume of transcripts and notes of and relating to James Thomson, made by an indentified Kelso enthusiast for Thomson, including transcripts of letters to his friend, Dr Cranstoun, biographical notes and queries, and printed reports of anniversary meetings of the Ednam Club to celebrate the poet`s birthday in 1812 and 1813.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13103
Dates:
1725-1827, and undated.
Volume used as an account book, 1819-1822, by William Patrick, a merchant in India, and in the early 20th century by David Rattray, a joiner and builder in Lochore, for calculations and working notes; with correspondence and other papers of Rattray.
Series
Identifier: MS.14246 (1)-(2)
Dates:
1819-1922, undated.
Vouchers and receipts of the Faculty of Advocates Library concerning the purchase, shipment and binding of books, and other Library expenses.
File
Identifier: F.R.343/7
Dates:
1715-1825.
‘Walk to the Culbin Sands; being a lecture delivered at the Nairn Literary Institute, Nairn’, [1882], containing a letter from the author to Sir Arthur Mitchell, 1900, on local bibliography.
File
Identifier: MS.9230
Dates:
[1882], 1900.
Walter Blaikie collection: letters containing Jacobite discourse.
File
Identifier: MS.3128
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. 'Free and Impartial Reflexions of a Member of the House of Commons of England on occasion of the Speech of King George to the two Houses of the same Parliament on the 28th of October, 1745, containing a justification of the rights of the Royal House of Stuards to the Crown of Great Brittain, against the pretensions of the House of Brunswick Hannover. In a series of Letters. Letter I. At Edinburgh, 1745' (folio 1), dated London, 3 November 1745 (folio...
Dates:
1745-1746.
Waltz, 1830, composed by John Thomson.
File
Identifier: Acc.6292
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1834, of John Thomson, Minister of Duddingston.
Dates:
1830, 1834.
War correspondence between Lawrence Burness and his parents.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9088
Scope and Contents
Includes extracts of letters, parted into three volumes, and photographs, 1942, of people and places mainly in Burma.
Dates:
1940-1947.
Wardlaw manuscript: 'Polichronicon, seu Policratica Temporum. Many histories in one, or nearer, the true genealogy of the Frasers', by James Fraser of Phopachy, Minister of Wardlaw (Kirkhill), begun in 1666 and continued at least until 1699.
Item
Identifier: MS.3658
Scope and Contents
A letter, 1870, of Francis Harvey, the London bookseller, to Sir William Fraser, Baronet, offering the manuscript for sale, has been pasted in at the end.
Dates:
1666-1699.
Warrant, 1641, to Sir David Cunningham (possibly 1st Baronet, of Auchinhervie), signed by the 1st Duke of Hamilton and others.
File
Identifier: Acc.8958
Scope and Contents
With:
two letters, 1653, of Robert Lilburne
four letters, 1659, of General George Monck.
Dates:
1641-1659.
‘Wizard Peter’ by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (Edinburgh, 1834), with notes and corrections by the author, and a presentation inscription to James Gibson Craig on the half title-page.
File
Identifier: MS.9808
Scope and Contents
There are several manuscript insertions, including Charles Sharpe's draft of five verses, written on the back of a letter, 1832, from the printseller Hugh Paton (folio 2), and explanatory notes and variant readings by James Gibson Craig (folio 3).
Dates:
1832-1834.
Women, education and literature: the papers of Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, part 3, reels 1-4 (Adam Matthew, 2001).
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1205-1208
Dates:
1793-1st half of 19th century.
Work entitled `Buchanan Revis`d [:] Annotations or Animadversions on Buchanan`s Historie and his Dialogue, etc.` consisting of criticisms of George Buchanan’s ‘Return Scoticarum historia’ (folio 7) and his ‘De Jure Regni apud Scotos’ (folio 64) by Sir James Turner, preceded by various items of introductory and explanatory matter.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.1.14
Scope and Contents
Although the author details the circumstances in which he began, lost, rewrote and revised his criticisms and had them bound, a period ranging from 1643 to 1679, his name nowhere appears; but he has been identified as the soldier and author Sir James Turner.The criticisms are followed (folio 64) by two satirical writings by Turner purporting to be a letter of Don Francesco Gomez de Quevedo Villegas with the impossible date of 1506, and a letter, 1582, of ‘Philander of Sitwald’....
Dates:
1643-1679.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.
Working papers, texts and correspondence of Professor Archie Duncan relating to his work on "Regesta Regum Scottorum, volume 5: The Acts of Robert I, 1306-29".
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12934
Dates:
circa 1950-1989.
Writings of Robert Lochore, cordiner, poet, and miscellaneous writer.
Series
Identifier: MSS.3585-3588
Dates:
Late 18th century-1851, undated.
Xerox copies of letters to Jean, Lady Hunter, from members of the family of Sir James Hall of Dunglass.
File
Identifier: MS.14196
Scope and Contents
The contents comprise a series of letters from Captain Basil Hall and his wife Margaret (folios 1-72) and another series chiefly from Helen, Lady Hall (folios 73-209).
Dates:
1807-1844.
Yule collection, chiefly of Scottish manuscripts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but including a Book of Hours and some Persian manuscripts.
Collection
Identifier: MSS.3134-3185
Scope and Contents
Many of the papers are accompanied by transcripts or summaries by Alexander Macdonald.
Dates:
1552-19th century